RE: Is the Atheism/Theism belief/disbelief a false dichotomy? are there other options?
October 5, 2015 at 1:06 pm
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(October 5, 2015 at 11:52 am)EvidenceVersusFaith Wrote:(October 4, 2015 at 9:16 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: So you object to being deficient in stupidity, foolishness, insanity, assholishness, etc.? Lacking something is a good thing, if what one lacks is bad. It is only if one lacks something good that lacking something may be bad.
The point is kind of that "to lack something bad" or be "deficient in something bad" makes no sense. You can by definition only lack a good thing. To be without or absent of something bad makes sense however. To say I lack belief seems to suggest not only that I don't believe but that I believe I ought to.
It took me forever to understand "lack of belief." How I understand it now is contingency. Being an atheist doesn't appear until someone is being a theist. I think you're reading more into it than needs to be read into it.
